Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-09
MINNIESOTh 4.

at Ellsworth.
An extensive ri.e of silver ore has been
found in Duluth
A prominent V eca city official is said to
be a defaulter H. . DO.
The saloons IL Montgomery have been re-
duced from ~teirtecn TO six.
John Wright, Of Hastings, was fatally gored
by a bull on Monday morning.
The conservation Of st. Luke's church at
Hastings too place on Wednesday.
Anton GO ~, a lsboring man at Winona,
was drowneo nile bathing on the Both.
The new { 'lolic orphan asylum at Min
n~eapolis is con pleted and occupied.
A WorthinGton man was sent to jail for
thirty days for selling liquor to a minor.
H. &. Woodbury. of Waseca was arrested
for embszzlc.nen on Saturday morning.
The Rev. w. Hobart, OF Mankato, was
stricken Vi h paralysis and lies very low.
Anoka hrs choice Of several sites, any Of
them worth $4,000, for the soldiers home.
d. II. SPICES furniture establishment was
nearly cpstroyed by fire Saturday afternoon.
The grlnd commandery of Knights Tenn
plar OF y '~nnesota met at Lake City last Fri
day.
NJ. y lean, bookkeeper for Magoffin q
Co, a l. iuth real estate firm, is missing. SO
is $3.50.
Lake innetonka is having the greatest
rush Of sitors ever known so early in the
season.
Some 800 Northern Pacific employees and
friends ON Brainerd picniced at Perham
Saturd
Il The lte Editorial association will meet at
Anoka lily 13, it being their twentieth annual
meeting.
yo,.Ig mar named Huber was killed by
the acc entail discharge of his gun near Co
logne, arver county.
A M named j. Q. Brown was struck by a
runav team in Minneapolis and almost
instan killed on Monday.
Jaco Krewell, Il Fergus Falls brewer, was
convlc "a Of selling a keg Of beer on Sunday
and tened to pay a fine Of $50 and go to
Jail.
Several citizens OF st. Peter have bought a
tract of ninety acres OF land near that place
and will lay out a fair ground and tro.ting
course.
The receipts of the Albert Lea college for
the past year were 50 In excess Of expenses.
Miss Laura s. Watson has resigned as prin-
cipal.
Gov. McGiN has appointed eX Coy. Ramsey
to represent Minnesota at the constitutional
centennial celebration at philadelphia in Sep
TENDER.
The dead body Of Andrew Palm was found
Thursday at st. Peter. 1t is not known how
be came to his desth. He was sixty, five years
old and dissipated.
Charley Hener, a Saltwater Dane, aged
twenty, was badly crushed by some oil barrels
Tuesday in trying to disengage them from the
tiers in an oil cave. He will probably die.
At the Saltwater reunion last week meas
ures were taken looking to the erection OF a
monument at Gettysburg in honor OF the
First Minnesota volunteers who fell on that
bloody field.
Albert Lea surgeons on Tuesday performed
the very rare operation CT removing a gall
bladder, which contained sixteen stones, from
Mrs. /. c. Lewis, aged thirty-fye years. But
few operations Of the kind are on record a..
having been performed In the world, and
only two previously In the United States.
The patient is now doing finely.
The c., st. p, NJ. & o.. depot at Heron
Lake burned to the ground Sunday morning
about 4:30 O'Clock. Nothing was saved
whatever. The fire was caused by the night
operator SLING lamps In the room and strlk-
ing \ match to light the lamp and throwing
1t down carelessly onto an old mattrass that
had been In the room for a long time and got
saturated with coal oil and caught fire. The
agent 10 now quartered In a box cal, Temperate
ly.
Sunday forenoon residents on West Fourth
street, at Red Wing, were startled by the
screams of a girl on the bluff. Investigation
revealed the fact that one r. j. Pytz, of Min
neapolis, was endeavoring to secure posses
sion Of q girl named Sophia Wigan, residing
at Red Wing. Her father, who formerly
worked for Pytz, recently died, and since then
the latter has attempted to secure possession
of the girl. She visited at his home in Min
neapolis week, and then her step-mother
was compelled to go after her. Pytz followed
her here and attempted to secure the girl,
claiming he wanted to educate her. The gen.
eral opinion is that there is something con-
nected with the matter that has not yet been
revealed.
A ST. Cloud special dated June 25 gives an
interesting sequel to an incident of the
cyclone Of 1886 that swept over that town and
Sank Rapids. The storm near Rice's station,
y few miles northeast OF that city, struck the
house OF Farmer John Schulz. Mr.. Schulz's
daughter Minnie had previously been married
to Henry Friday, a prosperous young farmer,
and the young couple were present at a social
gathering, which was In progress when the
storm swept ever the party, killing eight Of
them outright and seriously injuring nearly
all the rest. Among the dead was the groom,
while for 4 time the bride was thought to be
fatally hurt. She lives, however, and SO does
their son, who was recently born. The infant
bears his fathers name, and is the heir to his
fine farm, one Of the best in that neighbor-
hood.
Winona special: A very enthusiastic mass
meeting was held at the court house tonight
in the interest Of the Winons IL Southwestern
project. Hon. o.. b. Gould was called to the
chair and made a spirited address IN favor Of
voting the proposed bonus. Gen. G. Ii. Berry,
Hon. Thomas Simpson and Others followed